Plants

📖 In short

Plants are living things that grow almost everywhere: in gardens and forests, on mountain tops, in the seas, and even in deserts and polar regions. There would be no life on Earth without plants: they make the oxygen we breathe and the food we eat.

🤩 Did you know?

The biggest leaves grow on the raffia palm and can be 20 meters long.
A rafflesia flower can be more than 90 centimeters across.
Millions of years ago, huge forests of giant ferns covered the Earth.
The tallest trees in the world are redwoods.

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🌟 They make their own food

Plants don't eat like animals; they make their own food in their green leaves, from sunlight, water and air.

🔍 Parts of a plant

A plant has roots that soak up water and hold it in the ground, a stem that holds it up and carries water and food, leaves that make food, and flowers and fruit that make seeds.

💡 Plants without flowers

Not all plants have flowers: mosses and ferns spread with tiny spores instead of seeds, and pines carry their seeds in cones.

🎯 Plants give us everything

From plants we get bread, rice, fruit and vegetables, wood for houses, cotton for clothes, medicines and paper. So let's look after them and plant more.